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Photeinos imperial protospatharios and strategos of the Macedonians (ninth/tenth century)

 
 

Obverse

Patriarchal cross on four steps. Circular inscription between two borders of dots.

ΚΕΟΗΘΤΣΔ..

Κύριε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ

Reverse

Inscription of five lines followed by two pellets. Border of very tight dots.

ΤΙ
Ν/Α/ΣΠ
ΑΘ/ΣΤΡΑΤ
Ι.ΤΟΝΜΑ
ΚΕΔΟΝ/

··

Φωτινῷ βασιλικῷ πρωτοσπαθαρίῳ καὶ στρατιγ τον Μακεδόνων

Obverse

Patriarchal cross on four steps. Circular inscription between two borders of dots.

ΚΕΟΗΘΤΣΔ..

Κύριε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ

Reverse

Inscription of five lines followed by two pellets. Border of very tight dots.

ΤΙ
Ν/Α/ΣΠ
ΑΘ/ΣΤΡΑΤ
Ι.ΤΟΝΜΑ
ΚΕΔΟΝ/

··

Φωτινῷ βασιλικῷ πρωτοσπαθαρίῳ καὶ στρατιγ τον Μακεδόνων

Accession number BZS.1958.106.2457
Diameter 22.0 mm; field: 21.0 mm
Previous Editions

DO Seals 1, no. 43.33.
Another specimen of the same seal, possibly from the same boulloterion, is published by Schlumberger, Sig., 111-12.

Translation

Κύριε βοήθει τῷ σῷ δούλῳ Φωτινῷ βασιλικῷ πρωτοσπαθαρίῳ καὶ στρατιγῷ τον Μακεδόνων.

Lord, help your servant Photeinos imperial protospatharios and strategos of the Macedonians.

Bibliography

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